237651 - Sites using Windows Media player are not working right, Even if Media player 9 is installed, Mozilla use WMP 6.x

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193883

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Christian Rioux]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040315
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040315

Example from this page:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-824-4867/sports/lacrosse/clip10
show that Mozilla is using an old version of Media player, while IE use the
latest.  
Tried to reinstall Windows media player multiples times.
Behind our firewall, Mozilla with wmp version 6.x does no work, while IE and WMP
9.x works.   So we need to be able to make Mozilla works with Media player 9 (or
7.x with win98, which have the exact sanme problem)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log to a site that use embedded Media player video
2.Push play
3.You will either get nothing, or only sound.
4. Verify the version of media player used in Mozilla, it should be 6.x, while
it is 9.x in Internet Explorer

Actual Results:  
CAn'y play video in Mozilla, whiel I can if I use IE

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have used WMP 9.x, not 6.x.  It would probably make it works thru
our firewall.


 I suspect the Microsoft installation does not install plug-ins in Mozilla.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

see http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/important.html#WMP


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193883 ***